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Issue 1210 | Dec 2021
Domestic-Only Card Issuers—Credit
Credit Underwriting for Newcomers to the U.S.
Top 150 Credit Card Issuers Worldwide by Purchase Volume
Marqeta and FNBO Card Processing Partnership
U.S. General Purpose Card Brands through 3Q 2021
U.S. Consumer Payment Systems
Personal Consumption Expenditures in the U.S. 2020—Market Shares of Purchase Volume
Consumer Payment Systems in the U.S.—2020 with Projections for 2025
Largest Domestic-Only Credit Card Issuers
Largest Credit Card Issuers Worldwide 2020—Ranked by Purchase Volume
Card Manufacturers 2020—Part 2
Investments & Acquisitions—November 2021
U.S. General Purpose Cards—through 3Q 2021 vs. through 3Q 2020
Publicly Traded Companies in Payments
Issue 1209 | Dec 2021
Card Fraud Losses Dip to $28.58 Billion
Voice-Activated In-Car Payments
Top 150 Debit Card Issuers Worldwide
Global Brand Card Acceptance Locations Exceed 100 Million
Top Domestic-Only Payment Card Issuers—Debit
In-Store Payment Orchestration from Ingenico
VisionLabs Facial Biometrics and Card Payments
Barclaycard Payments Offers Fixed FX Rates
Card Fraud Worldwide
Fraud by Type of Card
Card Fraud Projected through 2030
Fraud Inside U.S. vs. Outside the U.S.
Largest Debit Card Issuers Worldwide
Global Brand Acceptance Locations
Largest Domestic-Only Debit Card Issuers
Top Manufacturers of Payment Cards—Ranked by Shipments in 2020
Card Manufacturers of Payment Cards 2020—Total Shipments
Card Manufacturers of Payment Cards 2020—Visa and Mastercard
Card Manufacturers of Payment Cards 2020—Other Payment
Card Manufacturers of Payment Cards 2020—UnionPay
Card Manufacturers of Payment Cards 2020—Other High Security
Investments & Acquisitions—October 2021
Issue 1208 | Nov 2021
Top 150 Credit Card Portfolios Worldwide by Outstandings
Pax Technology Investigated in the U.S.
Maestro is Being Gradually Phased Out by Mastercard
Top Card Issuers in Latin America
American Express Business Checking Account
Flow Networks Offers Connected Payments
Fiserv and Bakkt Form Crypto Partnership
8 Largest Credit Card Portfolios Worldwide
Market Shares for Top Issuing Countries Ranked by Outstandings 2020
Credit Card Outstandings by Region—2010 through 2020
150 Largest Credit Card Portfolios Worldwide
15 Largest Maestro Issuers Ranked by Purchase Volume
10 Top Issuers in Latin American Ranked by Purchase Volume
Top 50 General Purpose Card Issuers in Latin America
Top 50 Credit Card Issuers in Latin America
Top 50 Debit Card Issuers in Latin America
Publicly Traded Companies in Payments
Issue 1207 | Oct 2021
Payment Cards in the U.S. Projected
Network International Expands in Africa with DPO Deal
Commercial Bank Credit Cards in Canada
American Express and Goldman Sachs Partner for B2B Payments
POS Terminal Manufacturers—Part 2
Highnote’s Card Account Processing Platform
U.S. Payment Cards Projected—2020 vs. 2025
U.S. Payment Cards Projected—Purchase Volume
U.S. Payment Cards Projected—Purchase Transactions
U.S. Payment Cards Projected—Total Volume
U.S. Payment Cards Projected—Total Transactions
U.S. Payment Cards Projected—Outstandings
U.S. Payment Cards Projected—Cardholders
U.S. Payment Cards Projected—Cards
Commercial Bank Credit Cards in Canada—Mastercard and Visa
Commercial Bank Credit Cards in Canada—Cards by Product
POS Terminal Manufacturers—Other POS Devices Shipped in 2020
Investments & Acquisitions—September 2021
Issue 1206 | Oct 2021
Affirm’s Adaptive Checkout for BNPL
Top 50 Card Issuers in Asia–Pacific
Commercial Cards in the U.S.–Part 3
Top 150 Merchant Acquirers Worldwide
Pentadata Open-Banking Partnerships
Biometric Cards from Fingerprints and Infineon
Payment Cards Projected Worldwide
Payment Cards in Circulation Worldwide 2020
Top General Purpose Cards Issued in Asia–Pacific 2020
Top 50 Credit Card Issuers in Asia–Pacific 2020
Top 50 Debit Card Issuers in Asia–Pacific 2020
U.S. Commercial Cards’ Share of Purchase Volume
10 Largest Merchant Acquirers Worldwide
Largest 150 Merchant Acquirers Worldwide
Publicly Traded Companies in Payments
Issue 1205 | Sep 2021
POS Terminals Shipped Worldwide
Visa and Mastercard Commercial Bank Cards in the U.S.—Part 2
Asia–Pacific’s Largest Merchant Acquirers
American Express Virtual Cards for SMBs
POS Terminal Manufacturers Worldwide
Shipments by Type of Device—with Market Shares
Manufacturers of POS Terminals Shipped in 2020—by Region
POS Terminal Manufacturers’ Market Shares—Shares of Shipments 2020 vs. 2019
Visa and Mastercard Commercial Card Products—Purchase Volume 2020
Asia–Pacific’s Top 5 Acquirers of Mastercard and Visa Transactions
Top Acquirers of General Purpose Cards in Asia Pacific—Ranked by Purchase Transactions
Asia–Pacific’s Largest Mastercard and Visa Merchant Acquirers
Investments & Acquisitions—August 2021
Issue 1204 | Sep 2021
Latin America’s 45 Largest Acquirers
Mollie Gets $800 million to Expand Beyond Europe
TPay Mobile in the Middle East, Africa and Turkey
I2c Processing for Visa Buy Now, Pay Later
Prepaid Cards in the U.S.—2020
U.S. Mastercard/Visa Credit Card Issuers—Midyear 2021
U.S. General Purpose Credit Card Issuers at Midyear
Arkose Labs Guarantees Against Credential Stuffing
Top 7 Acquirers in Latin America—2020 vs. 2019
Top 10 General Purpose Card Acquirers in Latin America
Top 45 Visa and Mastercard Merchant Acquirers in Latin America
Top 25 U.S. Issuers of Prepaid Cards—Ranked by Purchase Volume
Store Credit Card Spending in the U.S. 1992–2020
U.S. Store Credit Cards—2020 with change vs. 2019
Top 10 Issuers of Visa and Mastercard Credit Cards in the U.S. at Midyear 2021
Top 100 U.S. Visa and Mastercard Credit Card Issuers—Purchase Volume and Total Volume Midyear 2021
Top 100 U.S. Visa and Mastercard Credit Card Issuers—Outstandings and Cards Midyear 2021
Top Issuers of General Purpose Credit Cards in the U.S.—Ranked by Purchase Volume and Outstandings
Publicly Trade Companies in Payments
Issue 1203 | Aug 2021
Household Debt and Credit Cards in the U.S.
Top 50 Card Issuers in the Middle East and Africa
Square to Buy Afterpay for $29 Billion
U.S. General Purpose Card Brands—Midyear 2021
Pax POS Terminal Phone Includes PIN Pad
Behavioral Biometrics for Customer Authentication
35 Years of Credit Card and Household Debt in the U.S.
Credit Card Debt and Consumer Credit 1980-2020 and Debt as a Percentage of Credit
Top 5 Mastercard and Visa Issuers in MEA 2010 vs. 2020
Top Card Issuers in the Middle East and Africa—2020
Top 50 Credit Card Issuers in Middle East and Africa—2020
Top 50 Debit Card Issuers in Middle East and Africa—2020
Largest BNPL Firms
U.S. General Purpose Cards—Midyear 2021 vs. Midyear 2020
Investments & Acquisitions—July 2021
Issue 1202 | Jul 2021
Europe’s Top 50 Credit and Debit Card Issuers
Middle East and Africa Global Network Cards
Top U.S. Issuers of Visa and Mastercard Consumer Cards
Rapyd Expands with Valitor Acquisition
QuickBooks Connects Portable Contactless Card Reader to Payment App
Sezzle Gets Investment from Discover and Promotes Merchant Loans
Europe’s Largest Issuers of Credit & Debit Cards
Top General Purpose Card Issuers in Europe 2020
Top 50 Credit Card Issuers in Europe 2020
Top 50 Debit Card Issuers in Europe 2020
Middle East and Africa Spending, Transactions and Cards by Global Brand
U.S. Largest Consumer Credit and Debit Card Issuers 2020
Publicly Traded Companies in Payments
Issue 1201 | Jul 2021
Asia-Pacific Global Network Cards
Securing Networks with Microsegmentation
Caixa Pagamentos Acquiring with Fiserv in Brazil
Second 50 U.S. Mastercard and Visa Debit Card Issuers
Tokenized Wearables for the Fashion/Design Industries
Merchant Processing Fees in the United States—2020
Push-to-Business Real-Time Payments
B2B Funding Deals in 2021
Asia-Pacific Global Network Cards 2020—Purchase Transactions
Asia-Pacific Spending, Transaction and Cards by Global Brand
Asia-Pacific Market Shares of Purchase Transactions—2008-2020
U.S. Debit Card Issuers—Ranked 51-100
U.S. Merchant Processing Fees—2020
Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Financing Transactions—January-June 2021
Issue 1200 | Jun 2021
U.S. Card Spending at Merchants—2020
Kabbage Digital Checking from American Express
ACI and JPMorgan Chase are Partners in Europe
Zeta’s Cloud-Native Bank-in-a-Box Platform
Aliaswire Credit Cards for Small Businesses
Digital Currency Update
Europe’s Global Network Cards—Market Shares in 2020
Europe Global Network Cards 2020 with change vs. 2019
Europe Market Shares of Purchase Transactions 2002-2020
Purchase Volume on U.S. General Purpose Cards 2015-2020
U.S. Purchase Volume at Merchants 2020
Publicly Traded Companies in Payments
Issue 1199 | Jun 2021
Global Network Card Results in 2020
Certegy Brings BNPL to A2A Payments
Top U.S. Banks in Visa Direct and Mastercard Send
Goldman Sachs Chooses Visa for Global Money Transfers
Push Payment Scam Protection from FICO
Worldline and Toshiba Partner for Hybrid POS Kiosk
Middle East and Africa’s Top Merchant Acquirers
Global Network Cards—2020
Market Shares of Purchase Transactions on Global Network Cards
Global Debit and Prepaid Cards
Global Credit Cards
Debit vs. Credit Market Shares of Purchase Transactions
Global Network Cards in Circulation
Global Network Cards 2020 with Change vs 2019
Purchase Volume by Product
Debit Money Transfers—Visa Direct and Mastercard Send
Largest Acquirers in the Middle East and Africa
Merchant Acquirers in the Middle East and Africa—Ranked by Visa and Mastercard
Investments & Acquisitions—May 2021
Issue 1198 | May 2021
U.S. Issuers of Commercial Credit & Debit Cards
TreviPay’s AR Platform with B2B Trade Credit
Checkout.com Adds Cross-Border Payments
European Payments Initiative Update
Positive Engagement with Past Due Card Accounts
Telpo Facial Recognition Terminal
ICheckGateway.com ACH Payments for CNP Merchants
Top Issuers of Commercial Cards in the U.S.
Purchase Volume on U.S. Commercial Cards by Type with Market Share and Change in Purchase Volume
U.S. Visa & Mastercard Commercial Card Issuers Ranked by Purchase Volume in 2020
U.S. Corporate Cards
Purchase Volume on Corporate, Purchasing and Fleet Cards in the U.S.—2016 through 2020
U.S. Purchasing and Fleet Cards
Commercial Prepaid Cards in the U.S.
U.S. Business Credit Cards
U.S. Business Debit Cards
Publicly Traded Companies in Payments
Issue 1197 | May 2021
Europe’s 45 Largest Merchant Acquirers
U.S. General Purpose Cards–First Quarter 2021
Citi Partners with CSI for B2B Virtual Cards
Fiserv Partners with PayPal for QR Code Payments
Spreedly’s Payment Orchestration Layer
Deluxe Expands into Merchant Acquiring
Credit Data as a Service from Bloom Credit
Europe’s Top Merchant Acquirers—Ranked by Purchase Volume
Europe’s Top Acquirers of Domestic Credit and Debit Cards
Europe’s 45 Largest Merchant Acquirers—Ranked by Mastercard and Visa Transactions
Top Acquirers of Web Transactions in Europe
U.S. General Purpose First Quarter Card Results
Investments & Acquisitions—April 2021
Issue 1196 | Apr 2021
Top 50 Largest U.S. Debit Card Issuers
Skyflow Cloud-Based Vault for Payment and PII Data
Petal Credit Cards and Prism Data Analytics
Paidy Buy Now, Pay Later in Japan
Real-Time A2A Payment Orchestration from Volt
Acima Brings Lease to Own to Open-Loop Payment Cards
CompoSecure Metal Cards and Crypto Cold Wallets
Commercial/Industrial Handheld POS Terminal
Six Largest U.S. Debit Card Issuers—Purchase Volume in 2020
Largest U.S. Debit Card Issuers–Purchase Transactions 2010-2020
Top 50 Debit Card Issuers in the U.S.–Ranked by Purchase Volume in 2020
Top U.S. Debit Card Issuers–Ranked by Purchase Volume per Card
Market Shares of Debit Products Among Top 50 U.S. Issuers–Based on Purchase Volume in 2020
Issue 1195 | Apr 2021
Canada Card Networks and Issuers
Visa Pilots Stablecoin Transactions with Ethereum and Crypto.com
B2B Payment Processing Platform from Balance
OpenPath’s Payment-Orchestration Layer
Canada Card Networks and Issuers
Canada’s Market Shares of Visa and Mastercard Outstandings 2020
Canada Spending, Transactions, and Cards by Brand
Credit Card Issuers in Canada – Ranked by Outstandings at Year-End 2020
Market Shares of Credit and Debit Card Purchase Transactions in Canada 2000-2020
U.S. Consumer ACH Transactions–2020
Issue 1194 | Mar 2021
General Purpose Cards in Latin America
Western Union Cross-Border Mass Payments
Second 50 U.S. Visa and Mastercard Credit Cards
Apexx Global Gateway for Payment Orchestration
Invoiced Joins Mastercard’s Track Program
Feitian Handheld Biometric POS Terminals
White Label Alliance for Domestic Cards and Closed Loop Systems
Rakuten Card Linked Offers Network in the U.S./Canada
Latin America’s Global General Purpose Cards—Purchase Transaction Shares
Latin America Spending, Transactions and Cards by Global Brand
Latin America Market Shares of Purchase Transactions 2000-2020
Second 50 Largest Visa/Mastercard Credit Card Issuers–Ranked by Outstandings
Issue 1193 | Mar 2021
Zwipe and Tag Systems Biometric Card Partnership
Payments-as-a-Service in Europe from Modulr
Affirm’s Buy Now, Pay Later Debit Card
Merchant Cash Advances Using QR Codes in India
Stablecoin and CBDC Payment Processing from First Digital
Forter and Capital One eCommerce Authorizations
Top U.S. Merchant Acquirers—Ranked by Transactions in 2020
Transactions at the Top U.S. Acquirers 2010-2020
Merchant Acquirers in the U.S.—Ranked by Mastercard/Visa Volume
Card-Not-Present Acquiring in the U.S.
Mastercard/Visa Share of Purchase Volume at Top Acquirers
Top 10 Merchant Acquirers in the U.S.—Ranked by Purchase Volume and Transactions
Investments & Acquisitions—February 2021
Issue 1192 | Feb 2021
Top U.S. General Purpose Credit Cards
Top 50 U.S. Issuers of Visa and Mastercard Credit Cards
Stripe-Owned Paystack Processes Online Card Payments in Africa
Pentadata API Platform for Developers
Biometric Card in China for CBDC Payments
Discover and Sezzle are Partners for Enterprise BNPL
Figg’s Card-Linked Offers for Issuers and Publishers
Intuit vs. Mastercard/Visa in Antitrust Litigation
Top Issuers of General Purpose Credit Cards in the U.S.–Purchase Volume
Market Shares of Outstandings for Top U.S. Issuers in 2020
Top U.S. Credit Card Issuers in the U.S.
Top 50 Visa and Mastercard Credit Card Issuers in the U.S.
Issue 1191 | Feb 2021
General Purpose Cards–U.S. 2020
Visa and Mastercard in the U.S.–2020
Conductor Card and Merchant Processing in Brazil
QRails API-based Issuer Processing Service
Card Fraud Marketplaces Shut Down
BNP Paribas Launches Biometric Card
Buy Now, Pay Later from Citizens Pay
U.S. General Purpose Brands–Purchase Volume in 2020
U.S. General Purpose Cards with Change vs. 2019
U.S. Credit Card Outstandings with Change vs. 2019
Market Shares of Purchase Volume on General Purpose Cards in the U.S.
General Purpose Credit Cards in the U.S.
Purchase Volume on Mastercard and Visa Credit and Debit Cards
Visa vs. Mastercard Credit and Debit Cards in Circulation 2010-2020
Credit, Debit & Prepaid Cards
Debit & Prepaid Cards
Investments & Acquisitions–January 2021
Issue 1190 | Jan 2021
Outstandings on Credit Cards in the U.S.
Investments in Merchant Acquiring & Processing–2020
Fraud Investigation Network from ID Insight
Top U.S. Credit Card Issuer Profits–2020
American Express Card Results Worldwide–2020
Mastercard Enhances Contactless Payments
Discover Financial Services Results–2020
Fleetcor Expands Cross-Border B2B Payments
PayPal and Vistaprint are Partners for QR Codes
Outstandings on General Purpose Credit Cards in the U.S.
Market Shares of Outstandings on U.S. Credit Cards—2000 through 2020
Investments in Merchant Acquiring and Processing by Region—2020
Investments by Region—Number of Transactions in 2020
Income at Top U.S. Credit Card Issuers—2020 vs. 2019
American Express Cards 2020 vs. 2019
Discover Card 2020 vs. 2019
Investments and Acquisitions—December 2020
Issue 1189 | Jan 2021
Payment Card Transactions Projected Worldwide
Tap on Phone at Visa and Mastercard
M&A Activity in Merchant Processing and Acquiring—2020
Paysafe Aims to Go Public with SPAC Merger
Silverflow Acquiring Platform for Merchants and PSPs
Mastercard and Visa Worldwide through 3rd Quarter 2020
Huntington, TCF Merger Impacts Debit Cards
India’s NPCI to Expand Globally
Purchase Transactions Projected Worldwide
Market Shares of Purchase Transactions Projected for 2025 by Region
Purchase Transactions Global Brand Cards 2000-2020
M&A Activity in Merchant Processing and Acquiring by Region—2020
Mastercard & Visa Worldwide thru 3Q 2020
